any kubectl command hangs (Windows?)

[frostmar]

Describe the bug
Any kubectl command hangs, with a blinking blue square animation but no output is ever produced.
That includes trivial commands such as kubectl version

Non-kubectl commands eg ls output OK.

Unlike #8211 even kubectl config does not work.

Steps to reproduce the behavior

1. launch kui.exe
2. run any kubectl command eg kubectl version

Expected behavior
Normal output

Screenshots
hanging:

Windows task manager shows one child process not responding:

Code snippets
If applicable, add code samples to help explain your problem.

System

• Kui version: 11.2.5 (downloaded Kui-win32-x64.zip, unpacked, run kui.exe)
• Operating system: Windows 10 Enterprise 21H1

[starpit]

Thanks for the report! To help debug this, can you let us know how you launched Kui? From a double click, from powershell, from git bash, or?

Thanks!

[frostmar]

I was launching kui.exe by double-click from Explorer

Checking now, running from commandline (cmd or gitbash) gives the same behaviour

[starpit]

Thanks! I think if you back off to Kui 10.8.2, it may work better on Windows? We'll look into issues with the latest builds.

[frostmar]

Thanks for the tip - v10.8.2 works OK for me (Windows 10 Enterprise 21H1)

[starpit]

Awesome, thanks so much for identifying this bad bug. We will update the latest release notes to point windows users to 10.8.2 until this is resolved.

[starpit]

Not sure why yet, but for some reason the node-pty module is hanging when it tries to connect to the conpty process that it itself spawned. I've asked the node-pty devs to see if they have any insight.